The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-12-29

-Congrsss adjourned on the sad for the holi-

-Congress adjourned on the 2ad for the holi.
days
-Ths Psiska Neps Of Sunday, with It's
Christmas literature, was algreat issue Of that en-
terprising paper.
The suggestion of a special session of the
Legislature has an earnest supporter In the
florida Hsfhsdia Advocate.
More than i've hundred men are at work on
the Orange Belt Railroad, and il win shortly be
completed to 81, Petersburg, on tho Gulf
w. W. Corcoran. the Washington philan
thropist sent thousand dollars to the Confeder-
ate Home n Savannah as . Christmas present.
The Jacksonville Metropolis was out in eight
we'll filled pages for Christmas. That admirable
evening paper is q prosperous and established
fact
The Christmas edition of the Gainesville
Daily Advocate illustrated the enterprise and
ability which has built up and firmly establish.
ed the business of that paper.
Eight car loads of orange trees for California
passed drought the city yesterday from parties
In and around Interiachen. and, it is said, there
are more to;follow. Paiatk0l Netcs.
The Oviedo Chronicle Philip Isaacs editor.
Is the title of a new paper, with Mr.. Sherman
Adams as Special Writer. he discusses agricul
tural and otter practical matters with ability
Mr. II. D. Allison, junior editor of the Live
Oak Banner, has sold his interes, TO his partner,
Rev R F. Rogers, who will remove to that town
and give the paper his personal. attention.
"Lsng may he wave his Banner.
1t is new quite certain that railroad will be
bull; Of once from st. Augustine TO New Smyrna,
on the HALIFAX. This will connect with the At
lantic and Western Railroad and give direct COM
munication With the Ancient City"-7dsdres
Herald
Last Saturday night five freight cars and q
cab plunged into the st. Marys river at the
bridge of the g., F. and W. r. R The engine and
seventeen cars passed over safely About
twelve hundred boxes of oranges were lost, and
the bridge much damaged. Nobody was hurt.
The evident truth is that the sentiment in
favor Of Blaine is dying of general debility.
Since his Paris message, the free chew message,
be resembles Rufus Choaie, who said that his
constitution was gone and he was trying TO live
little longer on his by-laws.-N Y Herald.
We note with regret the retirement from
journalism of Dr. j. J. Harris, so long the able
editor OF the Sanford JournDL He is succeeded
by Messrs. j. w. Veronee and E. W. Smith,
editors and publishers, who will doubtless pros
per in 80 good field of work as the thriving city
of Sanford.
The Clerks Office at Orlando has forwarded
to Lake county a:certihed copy of the registra-
ton lists of that portion of Lake formerly part
OF Orange The list contained 1850 names
1000 voters cut of by the two counties from Or.
snge-Tdeares Herald
"A husband has been sold for $50, 900 to an
other woman. The transaction took place in
New York, of course. Such thing could moi
happen in Massachusetts,, where when q woman
gets . husband, she holds on for dear life That
sxiy-thousand surplus bears the matrimonial
market-Boston Herald
The extension of the oyster trade in France
during the last ten years is regarded as one Of
the NEST extraordinary gastronomic features OF
the times. During the last year the beds have
produced 600. 900 900 Of oysters, ten times more
than in 1875. The working classes have their
oysters daily, and every wine shop, even in the
poorest qusrtere, has its oyster stand outside
NJ o. Inns Democrat
"A letter from Carrabelle informs rs that ten
and q quarter miles of the road bed is graded
which brings the work within about three miles
of the Ocklockonee river. The electric light
plant has been shipped and will probably soon
be in operation. The railroad company's saw
mill got up steam on the 26 for the first time
and will begin regular work next week.
An invitation from Hon. 81. L. Lilienthal
Mayor of Sanford, 70 be present and witness thu
proceedings, advises US that there will be Con
vention Of the Mayors of Florida cities at San
lord on the 4th proximo for the purpose of con
sultation with reference to the public health and
such other matters as they may deem pertinent
We trust the meeting will be as profitable al
pleasant, and it well may be both.
Mayor Lilienthal will to-day issue invita-.
tons to all the Mayors in the State, requesting
their presence in our city January 4th, 1883, te
sit in convention on the yellow fever question
and to provide ways and means TO prevent itl
appearance and spread in our State next year
Arrangements will be made for the entertain
ment OF the honorable body at the Sanford
House. and they may well anticipate very
pleasant visit 70 the Gate City.-Sanfor6 Jour
nal
we chr0Dlco yet announcer instance OF Inc
vigilance and shrewdnes of Sheriff John A
Pearce of Leon county, who ON the gath arrested
criminal who has been, perhaps, longer Q flu
gitive from justice than any other in the State.
The arrested man 10 William Maddox, who
killed Micajsh Richardson IN Taylor county on
the 2Sih of Decenber. 1873. Maddox has lived iu
Leon county for some months under an assumed
nsme. Since bis arrest he has acknowledged biz
identity. He is over sixty years of age, and has
wife about twenty.
Work on the extension OF the South Florida
Railroad from Tampa to point on Old Tampa
Bay IL being steadily pushed. Work tempo
rsrily suspended on the bridge across the Hills
borough river at Tampa during the epidemic
will be resumed in q few days and the bridge
will be speedily completed. Piers and docks
are being constructed at the terminus, and it ia
thought that trains win be running over the ex
tension BY the time travel to Key West and
Havana opens up In earnest.-OrIondo Sentinel.
Gen. J. q (Cerro Gordo) Williams one oil
Ksntucky's most noted statesmen, spent 6atur.
day and Sunday last in the Phenomenal he was
en- route for Naples on the Gulf" of which he
spoke in most glowing terms. The general has
been elected president Of the Naples Company
and claims that neither pains nor money will be
spared In making Naples one of the largest and
hsalthiesi cities In South Florida. He is one Of